situation where we have a human rights crisis that persists beyond the health crisis answering your questions is a dialogue just nothing we are now approaching a crossroads this is an opportunity that we must mark miss the stream on al-jazeera . iran says a fire caused significant damage to the town's nuclear plant but it's starting to rebuild. their lives all right with you watching officer of one headquarters here in doha also coming up an indefinite closure for the border between australia's 2 most populous states after a sudden spike in corona virus cases. we seemingly are shaky. and it's getting worse. also the campaign by members of the u.s. president's own party to prevent his reelection. and the growth industry and look

at sweden's intricate farming operation within city walls it also means they don't need pesticides so you can eat the produce straight off the wall. welcome to the program iran's now admitting a fire caused significant damage at his natanz nuclear facility it's atomic energy organization says the blaze could slow development of centrifuges used to enrich uranium but iran's planning to update the facility with more advanced equipment. reports. what exactly happened at the natanz nuclear facility last week it's a question people in iran and around the world have been asking since a fire was reported at iran's main uranium enrichment facility on thursday a fire incident like this at the centerpiece of the country's nuclear program is

easily a cause for global concern but iranian leaders downplay the incident latest satellite imagery however seems to show the scale of the damage whatever the cause is bigger than initial reports seemed to suggest on sunday the spokesman of the atomic energy organization of iran confirmed the seriousness of the matter speaking to state news he said enrichment activities continue but the damage was significant enough to slow some work at the facility this incident may create delays in the medium term plan for the development and production of advanced machines god willing we will compensate in such a way that the capacities at the site will be greater than before the natanz nuclear plant has been the target of cyber attacks in the past at the time iran blamed various western nations and israel iranian investigators say they know what caused the latest incident but cannot release details due to security concerns but military leaders have promised to retaliate if sabotage is confirmed. the incident at natanz happened just days after another explosion at

a military base where iran develops missiles on june 26th a gas tank explosion at the parchin military complex northeast of the capital caused a fireball so big some to her own residents could see it from their homes on june 30th a fire and explosion at a medical clinic in north to her own killed 19 people. on saturday a fire broke out at a power station in the western city of laws causing partial outages on the same day a chlorine gas leak at a petrochemical plant on the gulf coast injured 70 people these were likely just industrial accidents perhaps triggered by rising summer temperatures but the fire at the natanz nuclear complex happened in the backdrop of serious incidents that have rattled the country in recent weeks zain bus ravi all just here at. iran's foreign minister has been heckled by members of parliament and called a liar during a speech outlining the president's foreign and economic policies. that

it's a relief was briefing parliament and defending the government he was interrupted several times $200.00 m.p.'s have also tabled a motion to question president hassan rouhani saying his policies have led to the current economic crisis. the latin america is home to just 8 percent of the world's population but the region accounts for about half of all of the coronavirus related deaths cases have tripled in just a month brazil and mexico are the worst affected countries leaders are being criticized for putting the economy ahead of people's lives india has reported 25000 new infections a daily record and more than 600 deaths and over in iran while it's recorded its highest one day death toll and it's made wearing masks compulsory all countries are imposing restrictions again as cases surge and the include kazakhstan and the capital of madagascar that are back under lockdown or an outbreak in the australian

city of melbourne is prompting the indefinite closure of the border between the 2 most populous states the clear gauge has more from the capital canberra. there have been some people speculating about what happened during quarantine there when people did return from the ses but it has happened as well as restrictions have been easing across the country is truly has been very successful up until now really to suppress that 19 which means that shops have started to reopen public gatherings have returned and this is when we have seen a huge spike in cases in specific pockets of the city of melbourne and the victorian premier daniel andrews gave an update a short time ago and he said that they had been 127 new cases reported in the states or even not on sunday now that he's like the biggest jump in cases that

victoria has seen since the start of this hand to make which is why many different social distancing measures have now returned so you dozens of suburbs now returning to strict social distancing measures but also 3000 paypal stuck at least 5 days if not more in 9 public housing towers in melbourne that means like on leave holmes for the next 5 days until the government makes another decision on what will happen intensive care units are filling up in columbia's competent cases adult does a word many deaths are going on reported on a subgroup yet he has more from bogota. coffins carrying the bodies of 19 victims arrive for cremation at this cemetery on the outskirts of. the recent increase in the number of deaths in the colombian capital has meant cremation service is

tripled here in the last couple of weeks funeral workers say it's a sad situation for the relatives who can't give their loved ones a proper goodbye. people are helpless they see their entering the hospital 1520 days before and never see them again until they meet us in the closed coffin of. columbia's reopening of important sectors of the economy in june following a strict quarantine seems to be responsible for a sharp rise in hospitalizations. intensive care units are now 80 percent full in the national government new ventilators to increase availability but a lack of trained doctors means not all of them can be used at the same time and now authorities are worried by a sharp surge along caribbean coast soldiers and police in full protective gear or on the streets of the port city of. to enforce quarantine measures. the atlantic

a province is registered almost double the number of deaths compared to with only one 3rd of the population. authorities say here people have been more openly flouting social distancing rules holding parties in other gatherings and doctors fear some could be 1000 related deaths are not being reported. many patients dying at home or arriving at the hospital dead are not being included in the statistics but from feedback from families and clinics it is clear that the person died of corona virus and we are not reporting it. the sharp upturn in colombia still pales in comparison with some neighboring countries like brazil it is very worrisome especially since health authorities say we're still weeks away from reaching the peak of infections and the government is excluding the return to stricter measures saying it's time to revive the country's battered economy leaving

much of the responsibility in the hands of people wearing face masks and maintaining social distance a lesson that i'm just. but members of donald trump's own party a campaign against have just bugged the u.s. presidential election the group of republicans they draw the votes for his democratic rival to stop him getting back into power particle a possible. there's morning in america this viral ad put a new group called the lincoln project on the political map not because it has been viewed almost 3000000 times under the leadership of donald trump our country's weaker and sicker and this was an attack from members of the president's own party and he responded by attacking them well after midnight on twitter their reaction. republican operative rick wilson is one of the founders of the group he says the ad

did exactly what they wanted every day donald trump is distracted every day don't i was running around like a crazy person doing the things that he does what a tweet gets in his head already that says this campaign is not focusing on beating joe biden every day he's thinking about us he's nothing about him with surprising speed the group turns around ads meant to get inside the president's head something's wrong with donald trump the shaky weak speaking. hitting him on issues that he's made clear bother him like crowd size turnout in tulsa. his physical health the seeming you're shaking can't keep your palms up and it's getting worse and his handling of the coronavirus i don't think he was. but the group is also airing ads praising former vice president joe biden and democratic senate candidates will also attacking republican senators up for reelection in richmond has a nice ring that's drawing criticism from other republicans but they're doing it

not only opposed to re-election but to flip the senate to democratic majority control to say that you have to you know give the democrats control of the senate because you opposed it. that makes no sense thank you but wilson says it's a kind of insurance policy you know we don't want to have a situation where donald trump if he does want to 2nd term has an easy route to continue to do things in this nationalist populous way that we think is a danger to the country and more republicans are joining his cause hundreds of alumni from the george bush administration have formed a group to try to help biden get elected. to trim campaign says it's further proof the establishment is working against them this is highly unusual members of a political party turning against its old leader openly and in public. imagine how big the crowds will be when he's gone actively raising and spending money to see him defeated and their own political party completely out of power pedicle hain

al-jazeera. is a democratic political strategist she says that while some in the g.o.p. establishment are unhappy at the president's actions in office he still enjoys high approval ratings among republican voters. rank and file the base of the republican party is still with donald trump so there's a lot of uncertainty as to whether or not it's behind a significant impact on the election but i will say this from a democratic perception it definitely doesn't hurt and but i do think that what we're seeing from republicans is that by and large 85 percent are sticking with him that's actually higher than the numbers that george w. bush had in 2008 round this time so i think that it's really hard to say that it's going to have a significant impact at this point here's the problem that we're public and party

again writ large has not helped donald trump accountable there has been and go after scandal and they have continued to not only stand by him but to actively help him defend against some pretty damning allegations of corruption and abuse of power the biggest check against both parties is the base of both parties the voters who put those elected officials into office in the u.s. and so what we've seen with the democratic party is that the democratic party has no problem telling democratic politicians hey get out we don't support you and not supporting the republican party on the other hand has shown no interest in accountability against the republican party so if you're a republican you see that you see that you can pretty much do almost anything in your party is not and the voters in your party are not going to vote you out so unfortunately that's created a crisis of accountability in the united states. still had him around is there an airbase outside the libyan capital is

a turning to one foreign forces attacking walt claimed to have to being blamed but israel reintroduces a controversial mobile phone surveillance system to combat the rise in corona virus infections those stories after the break. how i once again welcome to the look of the international forecast hot dry sums up the weather across the middle east so business as usual here will see temperatures getting close to 50 degrees for some 50 celsius possibility in kuwait quite a brisk wind just making its way out of iraq a gentle smile fading down into the gulf as we go through the next couple days just knocking the temperatures back a little bit window hearts around 43 degrees still plenty on enough lots of sunshine there as you can see maybe want to show us still just around the southern

end of the red sea joining up with the showers around ever try around the theo pushing across say uganda running over toward say good on towards cameroon southern parts of nigeria seeing some heavy rain once again so we'll see that wet weather continuing as we go on through monday and on into choose a little change here but notice some coastal showers just running up across kenya pushing up into southern parts of somalia just notice some showers too in the forecast for the northeast of madagascar as we go through the next couple of days elsewhere across southern africa well financed right pretty much sums it out lots of sunshine coming through temperatures there are 19 celsius in cape town winds will pick up here as we go on through choose day high then the 50. but. in their bias against code the 19 malaysian authorities are targeting margaret but. what i want to east cost if this is the fictive bars control or discrimination

on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every. good. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me still robin a reminder of our top stories iran's atomic energy organization is acknowledged at last week's fire at a major nuclear facility cause significant damage this could slow production of

advance of futures which are used to enrich uranium. on the border between australia's tubers populous states is due to close on tuesday there's been a spike in corona virus cases of victoria prompting the decision to shut the front here with new south wales indefinitely and colombia is reporting a surge in covert cases and deaths along its caribbean coast the region accounts for over half of the country's fatalities doctors say many deaths are going and reports it. libya's un recognise government has condemned air raids on a recaptured air base of the west of the country it says a foreign air force carried out the attack the loss of the facility and may worth a bunch the string of recent defeats for ward khalifa haftar pushing him out of large parts of western libya after a lot of the offensive to seize the capital tripoli last year my head has more from tripoli. 5 strikes targeted by an identified warplanes but the

government here in tripoli especially of the defense minister just stated saying that are. foreign fighter jets carried out the attacks on turkish military facilities in the. air base that includes an air defense system according to. media outlets we have not. reported any comment from the turkish military as of yet but only the approach. media outlets that reported that among the military facilities in other words here targeted by a poor health or fighter jet is an air defense system units no casualties have been reported but the ministry of defense at the government of national in tripoli here says that this attack by planes is trying to send a message to try to disrupt what it calls the victory that has been achieved by the

government forces help by the military and specially taken control of western libya from forces loyal to the world really for have to. no there have been protests against the turkish intervention in libya crowds in benghazi shouted slogans and carried signs of taking turkish present risk their burden in the eastern city is the stronghold of forces loyal to her after her he's fighting against the u.n. recognize government which is backed by turkey libya is a divided between 2 rival administrations and several armed groups. at least 166 people are now known to have died in ethiopia during protests following the killing of a popular singer and activist officials blame the deaths on both the response to the unrest by security forces and death into ethnic violence singer how shallow and deaths are as a member of ethiopia's largest ethnic group the oromo he was shot dead in added

last week. is a cd a lecture at keele university in the u.k. and analyst on the horn of africa he says that too often all the research billions in ethiopia of victims of political violence. i think it's important that the government take steps to ensure to conduct a proper investigation and ensure accountability as far as the videos are concerned but i think the bigger picture is an important one the prime minister isn't our. a huge good on the part of the autumn was of course to either it in groups but if you really miss my needs the transitional process he made everything about himself his mind it's when he came to power was to buna action of consensus and pull more out of consolation he didn't do any more that there was not a discussion of political settlement for the country where that is one of the meter

things that the country needs in said day versus the about why don't you get really it's going to be and we are if you again needs to move there for the better versed people in the country to have a common how many years future there is no discussion there were national dialogue and most boards were not herons to the prime minister basically wanted to recreate the country he saw in it and i think that is where the problem that is the signal the government has given every step that the government has. a huge blunder in terms of taking the country forward saw you know this is this incident sinfully put the transition in a completely different objects. italy has authorized a charity vessel that rescued more than 100 migrants in the mediterranean to dock. those on board a viking were picked up after fleeing libya they're heading to sicily where they'll be transferred to a quarantine ship the migrants have been on the ocean viking for over

a week and the charity had to declare a state of emergency on friday because of violence on board. croatia's governing center right party is returning to power after a better than expected election performance prime minister andrea playing kickoff which just celebrated in zagreb official results showed his hate the said party winning 66 seats in the 151 member parliament to lead support from several small groups but can avoid an alliance with the far right croatia's tourist dependent economy is in the midst of a recession worsened by the coronavirus. rescue workers are searching for survivors in japan after torrential rain triggered floods and mudslides at least 40 people are either confirmed or fit dead roads or bridges were washed away leaving many isolated communities cut off the heavy rains expected to last until choose staff to do evacuation efforts are being have bit by fears of spreading kuroda virus

israel's prime minister says stricter measures are needed to tackle a surge in covert 19 nearly a 1000 new infections are being reported every day and the government has again authorized the use of controversial sones surveillance technology to stop the spread are a false it has more from west jerusalem. and this is the time that the internal security service in his religion that has been sanctioned to. monitor people's phones this isn't some absolute you voluntarily download this is the security services monitoring where people are being who they've been associating with and then sending them a text message to tell them to quarantine it it's assessed that they need to do so now this is through out the use of this tactic it has caused some outrage from human rights groups liberty groups but it has been deemed necessary to be put in place again he writes newspaper has reported that some 30000 people received such

text messages since this began again on thursday and those who have some doubt over want to korea to repeal it they are finding it very difficult to get through to the ministry of health hotline which is being swamped with such calls as well as that there are further measures that are coming in to force 50 people maximum in places of worship in bars and in event spaces things like weddings and there are further measures under consideration the cabinet has been meeting today and there are things such as restaurants and other potential moves the trouble for the israeli government though is that they obviously don't want to fully reimpose lock down for economic reasons netanyahu did say if the cases got back up to 100 a day he would reimpose lock down well now they're on a 1000 a day and he still seems unwilling to do so. the current virus crisis as destructive global food supply chains causing shortages in some countries the world

bank calls a 130000000 people could be at risk of starvation but a popular urban farming system could provide a solution. from sweden's capital stock. it's harvest time but not as we know it these very modern farm hands are bringing in the crops from a vertical farm plants growing from the walls instead of the ground no tractors required just a pair of scissors and artificial intelligence sensors that feed information on factors like speed of growth and nutrition content into a central database so that on this farm the computer is in charge the farm that you're seeing here everything is basically connected so all the parts meters that we have that have an influence on the growth of a plan for controlling that we are building are basically food brain to control everything by help of artificial intelligence and recreate the perth or. the mint

basil kale and get everything they could ever desire light water humidity temperature tailored to their individual needs and without the risky business of growing out in nature anyone inside the farm has to wear a protective suit like this to stop bacteria coming in from outside it also means they don't need pesticides so you can eat the produce straight off the wall. they taste better than the average supermarket solids and they're already being sold in local stores and restaurants in stockholm and local means local the sweet green farm hidden under this building in an old newspaper archive is part of a program called the neighbor food it aims to give all urban swedes access to produce grown within yards of their door. the global movement in urban farming could play a vital role in preventing food crises. as covert 19 exposes weaknesses in the supply chain that have left people hungry everywhere from zimbabwe to the us the

climate crisis the epidemic ongoing right now has shown us how vulnerable we are in the cities we become very passive consumers we want to turn that around and where people start producing in the spaces that are otherwise empty those spaces below our buildings can be used for food production this farms so-called food brain is available on subscription so any start ups can have their own environment controlled from here it could make vertical farming a growth industry that puts more food within easy reach at a time when it's most needed paul reese al-jazeera stock has. returned. calls by the pandemic but before the austrian grand prix drivers protested against racial and social injustice as david stokes reports. before the race in austria all 20 drivers took part in a protest against racism after reports of disagreements among the group is how best

to do it they all wore end racism t. shirts and the majority took the knee 6 chose not to the world champion lewis hamilton f one's only black driver was the only one wearing a black lives matter shirt. then it was time to race 4 months after the original opener in melbourne was called off because of coronavirus the sadie's valtteri bottas was on pole and got away cleanly at the start to open up a healthy lead. his team mate hamilton started back in 5th but quickly worked his way up to 3rd and that soon became 2nd after red bulls much to stepan was forced out with engine problems on lap 14. despite numerous incidents and safety because miss avies managed to keep potus and hamilton safely out in front but they did warn them they needed to look after their cars. while treatises james ticket box issue is critical to the state should show show then more drama followed kimmie reichman

lost his right wheel which meant another safety car had to come out while stewards recovered his alfre m a o that bunched up the pack and allowed others to put the miss a tease and the pressure alex albon in the red bull attempted to pass hamilton with 10 laps left hamilton blocked him and alvin spun off and ultimately out of the race but it was to cost hamilton did too even though he crossed the line 2nd behind but us he was handed a 5 2nd time penalty which dropped him down into 4th which meant it was ferrari charles the clerk who took 2nd mclaren's lando norris inferred at 20 years old he's the 3rd youngest driver ever to claim a podium finish in formula one there was no social distancing back in the mclaren garridge i'm just a bad piece of history to be on the podium in the 1st place yes there would be as a share with the fans in. do you have to have a few more people. yeah i'm just so happy i did not expect you to finish peter today. yes we made a bet at best out of it for me best way to start the season as

a team i think we're leading because we could have got more points i really feel particularly anyway right now i think it just the race is done and i just feel like moving forwards it wasn't to be for hamilton in the opening race but thanks to this season's makeshift calendar you'll get another chance at the same circuit in a week's time david stokes al-jazeera. you're watching me sell robin a reminder of our top news stories iran's atomic energy organization is acknowledged at last week's fire as a major nuclear facility cause significant damage it could so production of advanced centrifuges which are used to enrich uranium. the border between australia's 2 most populous states is due to close on tuesday there's been a spike in crude of iris cases of victoria in the decision to shut the front here

with new south wales indefinitely. and clover is reporting a surge in covert cases and deaths along its caribbean coast intensive care units in the capital are filling up the region accounts for more than half of the country's fatalities doctors say many deaths are going unreported. and libya's un recognise government has condemned raids on a recaptured air base in the west of the country it says a foreign air force carried out the attack the loss of the base was amongst the string of recent defeats for ward cleaver hafter. been protests against the turkish intervention in libya that took place in big gaza which is the stronghold of forces loyal to have to but he's fighting against the u.n. recognized government which is backed by turkey. at least 166 people are now known to have died in ethiopia during protests following the killing of a popular singer and activist officials blame the deaths on both the response to the unrest by security forces and into ethnic violence singer hutch alou one debtor

was a member of ethiopia's largest ethnic group here moreover he was shot dead in their desire last week. by groups on board ocean viking cheered after italy authorized the charity vessel to dog the more than 100 people who were rescued in the mediterranean are heading to sicily whether be transferred to a quarantine ship they've been on the ocean viking in for a week and croatia's governing said right party is returning to power after a better than expected election performance prime minister andre plenty of it celebrated as official results showed his party winning at least $66.00 seats of the $151.00 member of parliament those are the headlines about with more news at half an hour what i want east is next in a 2 part series. observes the lives of 2 children.

over 20 years. where insights into circumstances that cheap lives. in a rapidly changing world. 20 years of mean continues with good morning. on how does iraq. as malaysia counsels to contain the code that 90 barks she said been carrying out military style operations across the capital pool. in the name of public health and safety they've rounded up illegal foreign workers. oh when you look at these riots you can't help but think is the practical reality of dealing with a pandemic or is it racism. we have them like animals this is not the way to. treat a.